Wooden barrel or keg and head therefor.



J. W. BRAINARD. WOODEN BARREL 0R KEG AND HEAD THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 4, 1904.

Patented Mar. 9, 1909.

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WOODEN BARREL OR KEG AND HEAD Application filed November To all whom it may cov zc ern:

Be itknown-that I, JAMES W. Barnum), of Pittsburg, Allcgl'ieny county, Pennsyh Vania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in vrooden Barrels or Kcgs and il'eads lherefor,-'of which the following is a spec ii'ioation.

The prime object or" the present invention is to equip an ordinary barrel or keg made up of wooden staves, with an improved head which detachably held in plate in a sin' ple and effective manner, without the employment of extraneous fastening means, and is arranged to stiffen and strer h n the barrel without detracting from any of its essential features. i it is pro-posedto form the head from single blank of sheet metal, and to shape the some so as to permit of the convcnientap li catimi and removal thereof without making the baran y material change or alteration in in this connection, the head 18 arranged rel. to embrace the chime of the barrel or keg so as to incase the same in a metal shield, which rotc'cts the extremities of the stavesI when iiandlin the barrel or keg, particularly when rolling t e same. i

Ordinarily, a wooden barrel or keg is p To remove the head of an ordinary barrel or reg, it is necessary to first break in the same which fre ucntly causes damage to the contents oi' t e barrel. The present invention cllectually overcomes this disadvantage, as it permits 01 theconvenient removal of the head without breaking or damaging the lat ter or the barrel. Moreover, the head is capable of repeated use, as it is neither destroyed or damaged by the emoval thereof. With these and other objects in View, the present invention consists .in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be l'lereinafter more fully described, shown in e accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in th course, being understood-that changes in the size and minor details may be made within the scope of the claims, withfIOH) the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

BRAINARD, ()l PITT Specification of e appended claims, :it, of

SBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

THEREFOR.

Letters Patent.

Patented March 9, 1909. Serial No. 231,388.

view of the head, and Fig. 8 is a-sectional view taken through one on d of a wooden barrel or keg having the present head fitted thereto.

Like characters of reference ci'irresponding parts in each of ti tie drawing As her'einbeiore indicated d osignatc 1e hgures of l l l l l l l l producing a peripheral seat or rib which 18 open at its bottom and has its u n'ight sides 3 and 4 converged upwardly, in accordance with the usual taper of the chime portion of wooden barrel and keg staves. By preference, the outer wall 4 of'thc seat 2 projects elowthe plane of the body portion 5 of the head-and in this projected portion there is pressed inwardly an annular crimp or bead 7, which notonly stifiens and strengthens the part 4, but is employed to prevent accidental displacement of the head from the barrel; I

The application of the head .to the barrel or keg will be understood by reference to Fig. 3 of the drawings, wherein has been s own a portion of an ordinary barrel or keg made up of wooden staves or ordinary type, with the exception that the usual internal annular'groove is omitted,

and an external annular groove 8' is formed the c nn'ie received snugly within the annular seat 2, the walls chime the rested crimp 3 and l snugly gripping the barrel and the inwardly dior. head 7, which has been pressed in the outer side 4 of the seat 2, is l snugly received in the groove 8, thereby to I prevent loosencss and accidental displacement of the head. Attention will here be directed to the fact that'tllo crimp or bead? is formed by the free extremity of the outer side 4 of the peripheral seat, and thag the free edge of the head portion lies wholly within the groove 8, whereby the outer free Having thus described the invention what edge of the cover does not project beyond is claimed is: the periphery of the barrel but is housed in 1. A wooden barrel or keg formed of the groove. The housing of the outer free staves having a chime portion with an exedge of the cover in the groove in the barrel ternal annular groove at the base thereof, is very irn' ortant, because it is thereby and a metal head having a peri heral seat housed an cannot become: accidentally snugly embracing the chime witi its outer caught and pried out of the groove as would free edge crim ed to form an internal annular occur if the free edge of the cover projected bead fitting tiie groove of the barrel to hold externally of the groove. Whenever it is the head inplaee, substantially as described. desired toremove the head, all that is nee- 2. As a new article of manufacture, a baressary is to pry the bead or crimp out of rel or keg head formed from a .ilat metal the groove 8, whereuprm the head may be blank having its peripheral portion bent upquickly removed from the barrel without in ward, outward and downward to form an 3 any manner injuring the barrel, its contents, annular seat open at its bottom and having j or the head. As the head is not injured by an internal annular bead pressed in the Q its removal, it may be replaced and repeatouter side of the seat at the outer edge edly used. v thereof, the upright sides of theseat con- -lt'will now be understood that the chime l verging from its open bottom in accordance of the barrel is snugly incased in a metallic with the standard taper of the chime of shield formed by the annular seat or bead 2, wooden barrels and kegs and the depth of the whereby the chime is metal shod and conseseat corresponding to that of the chime, quently protected from the usual wear and substantially as described. tear thereon in handling the barrel by rolling In testimony whereof, Ihave hereunto set theigsanliev 1 f h my hand. y t ieemp oyment o t e present head i r v it will be noted that the staves are held to JAMES BRA-INARD' gether without employing the usual ter- Witnesses: minal hoo s, for the reason that the seat or R. D. LITTLE,

bead 2 ho ds the'staves in place. Gno. B. BLEMING. 

